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Solomon Berson

Who

Solomon Berson · Science & Medicine

What

Physician who co-developed radioimmunoassay, enabling precise measurement of hormones in blood.

When

1918, New York City, United States — 1972, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Solomon Berson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician who co-developed radioimmunoassay, enabling precise measurement of hormones in blood.

How & why

A physician at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, Berson worked with Rosalyn Yalow to invent radioimmunoassay, a technique using radioactive tracers to measure minute concentrations of hormones such as insulin in the blood. Born in New York to a Jewish family, he died before Yalow received the Nobel Prize their joint work later earned.

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Contributions & Sources

Physician who co-developed radioimmunoassay, enabling precise measurement of hormones in blood.

1918

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology